John Robertson

John Curtis-Robertson (born 11 February 1972 died 12 January 2026) is a British Paralympic sailor. Curtis-Robertson has represented Great Britain at three Summer Paralympics and with his colleagues Stephen Thomas and Hannah Stodel has won multiple medals in the Mixed Sonar class at the Disabled Sailing World Championships, including skippering his team to back to back gold medals in 2005 and 2006.

Personal life Robertson was born in Sunderland, England in 1972. After leaving school he joined the Royal Air Force, but in 1994 a motorbike accident left him paralysed from the waist down and he was invalided out of the force.

John married Louise Curtis-Robertson in 2022.

Sailing career Robertson was first introduced to sailing by his father when he was 11, piloting mirror's off the coast in Sunderland. After his accident in 1994, he was introduced to Paralympic trimarans by a spinal injuries charity during an outward bound course in the Lake District. The deduction saw the British team drop to fifth and the bronze medal going to Norway, just three points ahead of them.

In the run up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Robertson skippered his crew to a third World Championship, beating the Australian team by a single point.